mny

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-06-30
Primary meaning flaming star (?)
Literal translation ?
Variants
nmy
nm.t
Edited by
flaming star (?) astral concept

The meaning is unclear and the provided translation is merely a conjecture.

tꜣy=s rnp.t mḥ 19 rnp.t n ꜥb tꜣy n ḥꜣ.ṱ=s pḥ.ṱ=s ỉr=s nmy ỉ.ỉr-ḥr [...

‘Her 19th year: It is a year of miasma at the beginning and the end. She will be a flaming star before [...’

— P.Carlsberg XI 22 5

Genre: celestial divination
Provenance: Tebtunis
Date: 1st to 2nd century CE

Quack, J.F, 2019, Prognose über Desaster-Jahre, in K. Ryholt and J.F. Quack, eds, Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond; Copenhagen, 273-281. 279

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). mny (Lemma #716). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/716/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). mny (Lemma #716). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/716/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). mny (Lemma #716). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/716/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) mny (Lemma #716), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/716/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac716,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mny ({Lemma} #716)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/716/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/716/},
}